The Adventure of the Yellow Face'. Holmes reveals to Jack Grant Munro and to Dr Watson, right, the reason for the suspicious behaviour of Munro's wife - that her first, dead, husband was black and that she is keeping his child with a nurse at a nearby cottage. From The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle from The Strand Magazine (London, 1893). Illustration by Sidney E Paget, the first artist to draw Sherlock Holmes. Engraving.